American League Central

Baseball's regular season is quite long. Kansas City has a nine-game lead in the American League Central, so there's no real division race to keep things interesting during the next two months before the postseason finally gets underway. So some of the Royals players have been amusing themselves by requiring each other to drop a reference to rapper Fetty Wap into postgame interviews. Specifically, the numbers 17 and 38. Apparently the rapper recites the number 1738 in several of his songs -- including the hit, "Trap Queen" -- as a shout out to his crew, "Remy Boyz 1738," which took its name from a Remy Martin cognac. Kansas City Star reporter Andy...

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American League
Central Division
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